“ Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America. Maxine Hong Kingston
“ A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake again. She become sharply herself - bone, wire, antenna - but she was not afraid. She had been pared d… Maxine Hong Kingston
“ The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear. Maxine Hong Kingston
“ Hunger also changes the world—when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing. Maxine Hong Kingston
“ Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I en… Maxine Hong Kingston
“ We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment. Maxine Hong Kingston
“ The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. Maxine Hong Kingston
“ Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people. Maxine Hong Kingston
“ Allen Ginsberg instructs: First thought, best thought. Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft horse.Clayton Eshleman, laughing, said, 'First though… Maxine Hong Kingston
“ If you should decide during your old age that you would like to live another five hundred years, come here and drink ten pounds of this sap, they told me. But don’t do it now. You’re too young to deci… Maxine Hong Kingston
“ To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways. Maxine Hong Kingston
“ His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning. Maxine Hong Kingston
